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Consumers and businesses spend billions of dollars every year on anti-virus software. But these programs rarely, if ever, block freshly minted computer viruses, experts say, because the virus creators move too quickly. “The bad guys are always trying to be a step ahead,” said Matthew D Howard, a venture capitalist at Norwest Venture Partners. “And it doesn"t take a lot to be a step ahead.”...

Kozhikode, Jan 7: The first hip-hop song of the band Mappila Lahala – Native Bapa - launched online on the New Year eve has been listed among the popular videos of Youtube with more than 100,000 views in just six days. The album quite effectively questions the global trend of branding anything and everything related to Muslim names to terror and vehemently criticises the media culture forming such...

Christmas might have kissed us goodbye, but offers haven"t. To our surprise this time, it"s the Cupertino based tech-giant, Apple, which has finally decided to make its products affordable for our fellow proletariats, who cannot afford the inordinately priced "iProducts". Though it"s still not clear when Apple placed its 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display on company"s “Certified Refurbished”...

Kundapura, Jan 6: A person was killed on spot and another sustained severe injuries when two motorbikes collided with each other here. The deceased has been identified as Vasanth Nayak(42) a resident of Nayakavadi. He is survived by wife and daughter. His wife, who was riding pillion has been hospitalized with critical injuries following the accident. A case has been registered at Kundapur police...

Mangalore: Jan 5: Corporation Bank launched a new product – Corp RuPay Aadhar Card on Friday. This product is primarily aimed at providing easy and hassle free banking services to the financially excluded and underprivileged sections of the society who have an Aadhar number. The card can be used at the conventional ATMs, at micro ATMs or the hand held machines used by Business Correspondents and...

RSS: Rapist Suraksha Sangh/Rapist Security Society The RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat (or to call him out in the way he is referred to in the Sangh – Sarsanghchalak Param Pujya Shri Mohan-ji Bhagwat-ji) has now joined the pavilion of eminent Bharatiya moustachioed misogynists. In a breathtakingly revealing statement, he has told us that rapes happen in India, not in Bharat. What he means is that rape...

India is expected to have close to 165 million mobile Internet users by March 2015, up from 87.1 million in December 2012 as more people are accessing the web through mobile devices and dongles, a report by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB said on Wednesday. According to the report, the number of mobile Internet users increased to 87.1 million by December 2012 from 78.7...

I'M NOT A light reader. I don't read fiction, for instance; only books on philosophy, religion, politics or economics. I was born in a city in the province of Sindh in Pakistan, where I went to the New Era School. My early reading happened there as a child, in the school library. Most of the books were by English authors. I came from an educated family — my father was a lawyer, so was my...

Bangalore, Jan 2: Union Government"s ambitious direct cash transfer scheme (DCTS)?was launched in Mysore, Tumkur and Dharwad on Tuesday. The State government has listed around 15 different welfare schemes to be brought under the scheme. Pension, subsidy and scholarship amounts will be directly credited to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries under the DCTS. The plan was to bring around 30...

Sometimes the most important ideas in tech are hiding in plain sight. In that spirit, here are three predictions for 2013 that are just waiting to happen. No 3D TVs, wearable computer or jet packs for me — at least not this year. The Kindle Offer You Can"t Refuse Demand is rapidly shrinking for e-ink e-book readers. IHS iSuppli predicts that when the books close on 2012 some 15 million will have...